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Fukushima Daiichi Debris Samples Reveal Dangerous Link

October 3, 2018October 2, 2018 Nancy Foust 0 Comments black sand, black stuff, Containment, fuel debris, fukushima, glass spheres, inspections, microparticles, robots, TIPS, unit 1, unit 2, unit 3

A detailed TEPCO document from July 2018 gives some important new insight into the meltdowns at Fukushima Daiichi and the

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Fukushima Unit 3 Spent Fuel Removal To Start Fall Of 2018

July 25, 2018July 24, 2018 Nancy Foust 0 Comments 2018, fukushima, removal, spent fuel, unit 3

TEPCO has installed the fuel removal cover building on unit 3, but not without some glitches. An inverter that controls

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NHK Drops Bombshell On Fukushima Disaster In New Documentary

May 27, 2018May 31, 2018 Nancy Foust 0 Comments 18, 19, 20, 21, cooling water, fukushima, March, radiation, smoke, SPEEDI, steam, unit 2, unit 3

NHK’s new documentary, Meltdown: Cooling Water Crisis provides new insight into a series of less known events in the Fukushima disaster.

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TEPCO Adds Low Tech Water Injection to Unit 3 Spent Fuel Pool

March 23, 2018March 23, 2018 Nancy Foust 0 Comments injection, spent fuel pool, unit 3, water

TEPCO published a handout covering the recent worker training for a rather low tech system to refill unit 3’s spent

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The Surprise Found Inside Fukushima Unit 3

December 19, 2017 Nancy Foust 0 Comments fukushima, inspection, pedestal, reactor. vessel, unit 3

TEPCO released additional information related to the pedestal area inspection inside unit 3. Among this new data was some unexpected

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SimplyInfo.Org: Fukushima Update November 22, 2017

November 22, 2017November 22, 2017 Nancy Foust 0 Comments cars, defueling, dialysis, fukushima, GE, lawsuit, olympics, unit 3, update

A group of businesses and doctors from Fukushima prefecture are suing GE in US court over the negligence of their

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Fukushima Experts Tell All On Unit 3

October 12, 2017 Nancy Foust 0 Comments 2017, fukushima, NDF, report, unit 3

This is a continuing report on the new findings for the reactors at Fukushima Daiichi from the recent NDF Conference.

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SimplyInfo.org: Fukushima Reactors Face More Setbacks

October 4, 2017 Nancy Foust 0 Comments cover, decommissioning, fukushima, muon, removal, roof, simplyinfo, unit 1, unit 2, unit 3

TEPCO and the decommissioning authorities have reported on the ongoing delays at Fukushima Daiichi. As we reviewed these reports we

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Fukushima Unit 3 Muon Scan Finds NO FUEL In Reactor Vessel

July 29, 2017July 29, 2017 Nancy Foust 0 Comments 2017, fukushima, muon, muon scan, unit 3

TEPCO announced late Friday the preliminary results of the unit 3 reactor muon scan. The muon scan is capable of

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Fukushima Unit 3 Inspections Find More Melted Fuel

July 22, 2017 Nancy Foust 0 Comments Containment, Corium, day 3, fukushima, inspection, pedestal, ROV, unit 3

Day 3 of the inspections inside the unit 3 pedestal have been concluded. TEPCO did not report if the ROV

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Fuel Residue Found In Fukushima Unit 3

July 22, 2017 Nancy Foust 0 Comments Containment, Corium, fukushima, inspection, pedestal, robot, ROV, sunfish, unit 3

TEPCO has announced that they have found what they believe is fuel residues inside the pedestal area of unit 3.

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Fukushima Unit 3 Containment Inspection Starts With A Surprise

July 19, 2017July 19, 2017 Nancy Foust 0 Comments 2017, Containment, fukushima, inspection, pedestal, robot, ROV, sunfish, unit 3

TEPCO announced that the containment inspections for unit 3 will start today. This will include a more direct inspection than

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Fukushima Unit 3 To Get Muon Scan End Of April

April 26, 2017 Nancy Foust 0 Comments 2017, fukushima, muon, scan, unit 3

TEPCO published press handouts that there will be a muon scan of Fukushima unit 3 starting in May of 2017.

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Radiation Imaging Drone Introduced At Fukushima Daiichi

February 20, 2017 Nancy Foust 0 Comments 3d image, fukushima, gamma camera, quadcopter, RISER, robot, unit 3

A new quadcopter drone has been introduced for use at Fukushima Daiichi. The RISER quadcopter is currently in use to

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Fukushima Daiichi; Progress & Problems This Week

January 30, 2017January 28, 2017 Nancy Foust 0 Comments Containment, fukushima, scope, spent fuel, unit 2, unit 3

TEPCO announced that they would further delay spent fuel removal at unit 3, citing high radiation levels. Spent fuel removal

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Fukushima Unit 3 Cover Building Installation Underway

January 18, 2017 Nancy Foust 0 Comments cover building, fukushima, unit 3

The cover building installation for unit 3 is currently underway. A TEPCO handout from January 17th shows a “stopper” bracket

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TEPCO Begins Installing Unit 3 Defueling Building

April 13, 2016 Nancy Foust 0 Comments 2016, building, defueling, fukushima, spent fuel pool, unit 3

TEPCO began installing the first sections of the defueling building this week. The decking is the first portion of what

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Fukushima Unit 3 Spent Fuel Removal Work Begins

January 19, 2016 Nancy Foust 0 Comments building, cover, fukushima, removal, robot, spent fuel, toshiba, unit 3

The process to remove the spent fuel from the pool at unit 3 will be a long term project but

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Fukushima Unit 3 3D Torus Scans Begin

December 21, 2015 Nancy Foust 0 Comments 2015, 3d, fukushima, inspection, robot, torus, unit 3

3D inspections of the unit 3 torus room are set to begin December 22nd. This work is expected to investigate

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TEPCO Makes Two New Big Admissions On Fukushima Disaster

December 17, 2015 Nancy Foust 0 Comments containment failure, fukushima, SRV, unit 2, unit 3, valves

TEPCO has made two major admissions on the Fukushima nuclear disaster. The Japanese press has documented these two out of

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Fukushima Unit 3 New Hatch Investigation

November 27, 2015November 27, 2015 Nancy Foust 0 Comments 3d, fukushima, hatch, inspection, leaks, robot, unit 3, water

TEPCO sent the small 3D printed robot equipped with a smart phone into inspect the unit 3 containment hatch a

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New Analysis Shows Fukushima Unit 3 Released High Concentration Of Contamination

October 23, 2015 Nancy Foust 0 Comments contamination, fukushima, JAEA, March 15, releases, unit 3

Yomiuri Shimbun is reporting a new analysis by Japan Atomic Energy Agency that shows Fukushima unit 3 may have released

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Fukushima Unit 3 Second Containment Inspection Results

October 22, 2015 Nancy Foust 0 Comments Containment, fukushima, scope, sediment, underwater, unit 3

TEPCO states that data gathered will be released later. They have released some images of the second day of containment

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Fukushima Unit 3 First Photos Inside Containment

October 20, 2015 Nancy Foust 0 Comments 2015, camera, Containment, fukushima, inspection, pcv, probe, scope, unit 3

TEPCO has released a set of images taken inside the containment structure of unit 3 on March 20th. This is

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Fukushima Unit 3 Containment Probe On October 20th

October 19, 2015 Nancy Foust 0 Comments Containment, fukushima, inspection, pcv, unit 3

TEPCO quietly announced that October 20th they would conduct the first containment inspection of unit 3. This is significant work

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Japan NRA Begins Restart Checks On Reactor Under Court Injunction Not To Run

August 18, 2015August 18, 2015 Nancy Foust 0 Comments Kansai, NRA, restart, Takahama, unit 3

NRA is doing pre-restart inspections on Takahama unit 3, even after the potential restart of the reactor was blocked by

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Fukushima Unit 3 Fuel Crane Removed From Spent Fuel Pool

August 2, 2015 Nancy Foust 0 Comments 2015, august, fhm, fuel crane, fukushima, removal, unit 3

TEPCO successfully removed the fuel handling crane from the spent fuel pool on August 2nd amid problems with fog. The

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Fukushima Unit 3 Seawater Trench Concreting Completed

July 30, 2015 Nancy Foust 0 Comments concreting, fukushima, piping, sea front, sea water, trench, unit 3

TEPCO announced that they have completed the concreting of the unit 3 seawater piping trench system. Two vertical shafts are

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Fukushima Unit 3 Crane To Be Removed From Pool August 2nd

July 28, 2015July 28, 2015 Nancy Foust 0 Comments 2015, crane, fukushima, removal, spent fuel pool, unit 3

The remains of the unit 3 fuel handling crane will be removed from the spent fuel pool August 2nd. TEPCO

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Fukushima Unit 3 Fuel Crane To Be Removed This Week

July 28, 2015July 27, 2015 Nancy Foust 0 Comments crane, removal, spent fuel pool, unit 3

TEPCO plans to remove the remains of the fuel crane from the pool this week using a special pair of

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Fukushima Unit 3 Decommissioning Plan Released

July 8, 2015July 7, 2015 Nancy Foust 0 Comments building, crane, decommissioning, fukushima, nuclear, removal, spent fuel pool, unit 3

TEPCO released significant new information about the plan and progress for dealing with unit 3’s spent fuel pool. The report

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Fukushima Unit 3 Containment Inspection To Start October 2015

April 8, 2015 Nancy Foust 0 Comments Containment, fukushima, inspection, unit 3

TEPCO  and IRID recently published details on the first efforts to probe the unit 3 reactor at Fukushima Daiichi. In

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Fukushima Daiichi Unit 3 Spent Fuel Pool Gate Inspected

April 6, 2015April 6, 2015 Nancy Foust 0 Comments daiichi, fukushima, gate, sfp, spent fuel pool, unit 3

The unit 3 spent fuel pool gate was inspected further after concerns that the fuel handling crane could have damaged

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Fukushima Unit 3 Spent Fuel Pool Gate Damaged

March 27, 2015 Nancy Foust 0 Comments canal, damage, fukushima, gate, spent fuel pool, unit 3

NHK is reporting that TEPCO has admitted that two spent fuel pool gates at unit 3 are damaged. They described the first

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Fukushima Daiichi Unit 3 Fuel Removal To Start Within Year

March 5, 2015 Nancy Foust 0 Comments daiichi, fukushima, removal, spent fuel, unit 3

TEPCO told Yomiuri Shimbun that they expect to begin removing spent fuel at the unit 3 reactor within the 2015

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Oil Leak In Fukushima Daiichi Unit 3 Spent Fuel Pool

February 25, 2015February 25, 2015 Nancy Foust 0 Comments daiichi, fukushima, leak, oil, sfp, spent fuel pool, unit 3

An oil leak occurred in the spent fuel pool of unit 3 at Fukushima Daiichi today as work was under

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Frozen Wall Delayed As More Concreting At Fukushima Daiichi

February 10, 2015February 10, 2015 Nancy Foust 0 Comments concrete, daiichi, frozen wall, fukushima, trench, unit 3

TEPCO announced a two week delay in work to install a frozen underground wall around the leaking reactors at Fukushima

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TEPCO Begins Concreting Unit 3 Trench

February 5, 2015 Nancy Foust 0 Comments concrete, contaminated, fukushima, trench, unit 3, water

TEPCO concreted the unit 3 trench in some unannounced work at Fukushima Daiichi. The unit 2 cable trench had been

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TEPCO Admonished For Corner Cutting That Caused Massive 2014 Fukushima Radiation Release

January 1, 2015 Nancy Foust 0 Comments contaminated dust, Demolition, TEPCO, unit 3

NRA has issued an administrative order over the misuse of spray dust inhibitors. While the subject sounds benign, this corner

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Fukushima Unit 3 Dust Disperal Hints At Accident Events

September 23, 2014 Nancy Foust 0 Comments contamination, fukushima, reactor, unit 3

TEPCO’s report on contaminated dust dispersal that ended up contaminating rice fields north of the damaged nuclear site may indicate

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